Marc David Baer

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Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A scholar of Middle Eastern and European History, who conducts research utilising Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Turkish, he is the author of six books: Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), winner, Albert Hourani Prize, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Best Book in Middle East Studies, translated into Turkish as IV. Mehmet Döneminde Osmanlı Avrupa'sında İhtida ve Fetih(Istanbul: Hil, 2010); The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), translated into Turkish as Selânikli Dönmeler: Musevilikten Dönenler, Müslüman Devrimciler, ve Laik Türkler (Istanbul: Doğan, 2011), and translated into Greek as Οι ντονμε τησ θεσσαλονικησ: Εξισλαμισθέντες Εβραίοι, Επαναστάτες Μουσουλμάνοι, Κοσμικοί Τούρκοι (Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2020); At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida (Death on the Hippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul) (Istanbul: Koç Yayınları, 2016); Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020) and German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs will be published by Basic Books in the US and John Murray in the UK in October 2021.

In addition, he has published works on Turks in Germany including “Mistaken for Jews: Turkish PhD Students in Nazi Germany” (German Studies Review) and “Turk and Jew in Berlin: The First Turkish Migration to Berlin and the Shoah” (Comparative Studies in Society & History) as well as German-Jewish converts to Islam including “Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany: Hugo Marcus and ‘The Message of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to Europe.’” (New German Critique) and “Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust: The Ahmadi of Berlin and German-Jewish Convert to Islam Hugo Marcus" (The American Historical Review).

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Baer has argued that Ottoman studies is an "ethically challenged field" because of the prevalence of Armenian genocide denial. His book Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide sets out to answer the question of why "Turkish Jews and their historians proffered a utopian perspective on Turks as having been sent by God time and again to save God’s persecuted people from European barbarity. I wondered: what were the origins of this claim, where was the evidence to support it, and why was it still being repeated?"[1]

Publications[]

Books

  • Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008. (Turkish translation, IV. Mehmet Döneminde Osmanlı Avrupasında İhtida ve Fetih, Hil, 2010)
  • The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Stanford, 2010. (Turkish translation, Selânikli Dönmeler: Musevilikten Dönenler, Müslüman Devrimciler, ve Laik Türkler, Doğan, 2011)
  • At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida (Death on the Hippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul) (Istanbul: Koç Yayınları, 2016)
  • Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020)
  • German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020)
  • The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (New York: Basic Books, 2021)

Articles

“Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide,” Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 73, no. 1 (2021): 39-51.

"Sinnig zwischen beiden Welten". Der Intellektuelle Hugo Marcus und die Ahmadiyya-Bewegung zur Verbreitung des Islam, Münchner Beiträge zur Judischen Geschichte und Kultur 14, no. 2, Begegnungen. Juden und Muslime im Deutschland der Zwischenkriegszeit (2020): 16-26.

“Mistaken for Jews: Turkish PhD Students in Nazi Germany.” German Studies Review 41, no. 1 (February 2018): 19-39.

“Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany: Hugo Marcus and ‘The Message of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to Europe.’” New German Critique 131, Vol. 44, no. 2 (August 2017): 163-200.

“Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust: The Ahmadi of Berlin and German-Jewish Convert to Islam Hugo Marcus.” The American Historical Review 120, no. 1 (February 2015): 140-171. doi: 10.1093/ahr/120.1.140

“History and Religious Conversion.” The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Edited by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 25-47.

“An Enemy Old and New: The Dönme, Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theories in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic.” Jewish Quarterly Review 103, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 523-555.

“Turk and Jew in Berlin: The First Turkish Migration to Berlin and the Shoah.” Comparative Studies in Society & History 55, no. 2 (April 2013): 330-355.

“The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks.” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. The Muslim Issue. Spring 2012: 44-5.

“Die Dönme die »heimlichen Beherrscher der Türkei«” (in German). Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten (Inamo). Band 67. “Türkei.” September 2011.

“Death in the Hippodrome: Sexual Politics and Legal Culture in the Reign of Mehmet IV.” Past & Present 210, no. 1 (February 2011): 61-91.

“Dönme.” The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. Leiden, Brill, 2012, 92-96.

“Dönme” (in German). Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ed. Wolfgang Benz. Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin. 7 vols. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2010, Band 3: Begriffe, Theorien, Ideologien, 59-60.

“Dönme (Ma’minim, Minim, Shabbetaim).” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 2: 89-90.

“Tolerance and Conversion in the Ottoman Empire: A Conversation with Marc Baer and Ussama Makdisi.” Comparative Studies in Society & History 51, no. 4 (October 2009): 927-940.

“Manliness, Male Virtue and History Writing at the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Court.” Gender & History 20, no. 1 (April 2008): 128-148.

“Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and the Dönme in Ottoman Salonica and Turkish Istanbul.” Journal of World History 18, no. 2 (June 2007): 141-69.

“The Double Bind of Race and Religion: The Conversion of the Dönme to Turkish Secular Nationalism.” Comparative Studies in Society & History Volume 46, no. 4 (October 2004): 678-712. • Reprinted in full in Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity, eds. Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart (Boston: Brill, 2007), 291-323. • A condensed version published in Turkey Beyond Nationalism: Towards Post-Nationalist Identities, ed. Hans-Lukas Kieser (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006), 67-73.)

“Islamic Conversion Narratives of Women: Social Change and Gendered Religious Hierarchy in Early Modern Ottoman Istanbul.” Gender & History 16, no. 2 (August 2004): 425-458.

“The Great Fire of 1660 and the Islamization of Christian and Jewish Space in Istanbul.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, no. 2 (May 2004): 159-181.

“Messiah King or Rebel? Jewish and Ottoman Reactions to Sabbatai Sevi’s Arrival in Istanbul,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 9 (2003): 153-74.

“Conversion of Christian and Jewish Souls and Space During the ‘Anti-Dervish Movement of 1656-76.’” In David Shankland (ed.), Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck, 1878-1920. 2 vols. Istanbul: Isis Books, 2004, 2:183-200.

“A Mysterious Page of History” (in Turkish). Tarih ve Toplum 38:223 (July 2002): 24-5.

“Turkish Jews Rethink ‘500 Years of Brotherhood and Friendship.’” The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 24:2 (Fall 2000): 63-73.

“17. yüzyılda Yahudilerin Osmanlı Imparatorluğu’ndaki nüfuz ve mevkilerini yitirmeleri” (The Jews’ Loss of Influence and Position in the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century) (in Turkish). Toplum ve Bilim 83, Osmanlı: Muktedirler ve Mâdunlar (Kış 1999/2000): 202-222.

“How Did the Non-Muslims of Bursa Become Muslim?” (in Turkish). Toplumsal Tarih 68 (August 1999): 61-64.

“As a Taboo Is Broken: Turkish Jewry’s Most Difficult Years.” (in Turkish). Virgül 21 (July–August 1999): 2-5.

“Revealing a Hidden Community: Ilgaz Zorlu and the Debate in Turkey Over the Dönme/Sabbateans.” The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 23:1 (Spring 1999): 68-75.

“The Messiah of Ottoman Jews and His Traces in the Turkish Republic” (in Turkish). Virgül 11 (September 1998): 48-51.

“The Mosque of the Dönme of Salonika: The Sole Remains of a Shared Past” (in Turkish). Tarih ve Toplum 28, no. 168 (December 1997): 30-34.

References[]

  1. ^ "Marc David Baer, Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (New Texts Out Now)". Jadaliyya. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.

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